On February 11th, Kerstin Koch, project lead of the PROXIDRUGS project InnoDATA, joined a panel discussion at the closing event of the series “Die Farben der Biotechnologie” hosted by Technologieland Hessen. The event brought together experts from across the biotech landscape to discuss how innovation ecosystems and clusters can act as accelerators for scientific and technological progress. As part of the panel, PROXIDRUGS contributed the cluster perspective to the dialogue, highlighting the...

Scientists from Ivan Đikić lab at Goethe University Frankfurt and Radosław Nowak lab at the University of Bonn, within PROXIDRUGs network, invented ProxiCapture – an innovative affinity-proteomics platform that enables the systematic analysis of degrader-induced protein interactions directly in native cell and tissue samples. Molecular glue degraders are an emerging class of small molecules that can redirect cellular protein disposal systems to eliminate disease-relevant proteins. While these...

On February 6, 2026, representatives from academia, clinic, industry, and politics met to an exchange meeting of the House of Pharma & Healthcare. The focus of the meeting was a structured overview of the activities of the House of Pharma & Healthcare as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange and knowledge transfer between universities, industry, and the public sector. The importance of Frankfurt as a hub for pharmaceutical research, education, and translation was particularly emphasized....